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About the Role
This dual-purpose leadership role sits at the heart of the Technology Leadership Team, shaping and coordinating Technology strategy and portfolio decisions while driving operational excellence for a large, distributed Technology function. It acts as the main connector between Enterprise Technology and the wider Group, ensuring alignment and mutual reinforcement of strategy, planning, and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the SVP and Technology leaders to shape and evolve an integrated Enterprise Technology strategy across all Group functions, Lines of Business and markets.
- Own the Group-wide Technology portfolio view — surfacing demand, dependencies, risks and delivery plans so resources are focused on the most important outcomes.
- Lead portfolio governance and prioritisation, working with all Enterprise areas to establish best practice for project tracking, prioritisation and delivery management.
- Translate strategic ambition into clear, actionable plans, KPIs and operating rhythms that stay aligned with business needs and emerging opportunities.
- Drive operational excellence across the whole Technology team, ensuring a large, distributed group performs at its best across all markets.
- Design, standardise and continuously improve operational processes across Enterprise Technology teams.
- Lead initiatives that improve efficiency, scalability and productivity, embedding operational rigour in change management, tooling and workflow adoption.
- Track execution against strategic objectives Group-wide, proactively identifying and closing risks and gaps.
- Act as a trusted adviser to the SVP Technology and key members of the Technology Leadership Team, running effective leadership rhythms, agenda setting and decision tracking.
- Coordinate cross-functional and cross-LoB activity, preparing executive materials and providing additional leadership capacity for strategic initiatives and special projects.
- Serve as the primary point of integration between Enterprise Technology and stakeholders across Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement and the wider Group.
- Partner with Finance on budgeting, variance analysis and long-range financial planning.
- Optimise capacity allocation across teams, programmes and strategic initiatives, including headcount planning and investment prioritisation.
- Support the definition and tracking of key KPIs across the Group, improving the visibility of roadmaps and performance for the leadership team.
- Drive improvements in how Enterprise Technology operates, collaborates and measures performance across the Group.
- Lead clear, business-focused communication of Technology's value, priorities and outcomes, building strong relationships across Technology and the wider business.
- Build a culture of collaboration and empathy-driven communication, mediating conflicts constructively and ensuring purposeful, well-aligned communication Group-wide.
Requirements
- Significant experience in technology strategy, portfolio management, business operations or transformation in a complex, matrixed organisation — ideally spanning both Group-wide and market-level scope.
- Proven ability to shape strategic direction, lead portfolio planning and prioritisation, and turn strategy into practical plans and measurable outcomes.
- Track record of designing and embedding operational processes, best practice and continuous improvement across large, distributed technology teams.
- Strong skills in budget consolidation, planning, reporting and performance management, with a focus on insightful, decision-oriented information.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technology value in clear business language and influence senior stakeholders at an executive level.
- Highly organised and structured, comfortable managing complexity and shifting priorities, with high emotional intelligence and strong conflict-resolution skills.
- Ideally, experience supporting digital, data or AI-related strategy or transformation, and an interest in how emerging technologies can drive Group-wide business value.
- Experience navigating a large matrix organisation; media industry experience is a plus.
- Regular travel is a requirement of the role.
Skills
- Technology strategy
- Portfolio management
- Business operations
- Transformation
- Strategic planning
- Portfolio planning
- Prioritisation
- Operational excellence
- Process design
- Continuous improvement
- Budgeting
- Financial planning
- Performance management
- Communication
- Influencing
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Conflict resolution
- AI awareness
- Digital awareness
Location
- UK
- Germany
- Poland
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Travel
Experience Level
- Senior technology leadership
Benefits
- 28 days holiday
- Bank holidays
- 2 volunteer days
- Access to Bauer Academy for training
- Enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay
- Flexible working opportunities
About the Company
- Bauer Media Group is a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe.
- Their offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors.
- They are one of Europe’s largest Publishers with over 500 million copies sold each year.
- They own popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print.
- They operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, reaching over 61 million listeners weekly.
- Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset.
- Their workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
Equal Opportunity
- International employer and equal opportunities are important.
- Welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability.
- Committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.
- If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk.